Button-hole strip



(No Model.)

A. L. NEWMAN.

BUTTON HOLE STRIP.

No. 428,571. Patented May 20, 1890.

fizverzbor 7& @Mb Dewar-neg UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ABRAHAM L. NEWVMAN, OF NEIV YORK, N. T, ASSIGNOR TO ISAAC NEVMAN AND JACOB. J. NEIVMAN, BOTI-I OF NEIV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON-HOLE STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,571, dated May 20, 1890.

Application filed February 17,1890. Serial No. 340,631. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern; between these slits the flaps C are cut out, 'Be it known that I, ABRAHAM L. NEWMAN, which flaps are of a width practically the of the city, county, and State of New York, same as the length of the button-hole slits. have invented certain new and useful I111- The flaps on opposite sides of each slit are '55 provements in Button-Hole Strips, of which passed through and doubled over the edges the following is a full, clear, and exact deof. the slit and secured in place by the buttonscription, reference being had to the accomhole stitching, thus forming the edges of the panyin g drawings. button-hole.

The invention relates to the production of At D is shown one such flap folded over one 60 IO button-hole strips for corsets and similar or edge of a button-hole slit, and at E are shown other articles or garments, and the object is two opposite flaps folded over the edges of to form abutton-hole piece or strip that shall the slit between them and secured in place be strong and durable, and at the same time by stitching F. sightly, ornamental, and without having un- \Vhen unusual strength of button-hole is 65 desirable bulk or thickness of parts. desired, I insert under the flaps C and at the The invention consists of a body piece or edge of the button-hole a cord G, which is strip which has button-holes out in it at proper sewed in with the flap whenthe hole is stitched. intervals, and with the material between the H is one of the covering pieces or strips. button-holes cut to form flaps adjacent to These covering-strips are out with the button- 70 each side of the button-holes, which flaps are hole openings I, which correspond in length doubled over the edges of the button-holes and distance apart to the button-holes of the and there secured in place, such fiaps servbody-strip A. The edges of the cuts I are ing as a binding and re-enforce to the edges of turned back, so that openings J are formed, the button-holes and covering pieces or strips which openings are narrower than the width of 75 2 5 to belaid upon one or both sides of the bodythetwo folded flaps C C at any one button-hole. strip, and such covering-strips have button- These covering-pieces are placed upon the hole openings correspondingin position to the body-piece, usually one on each side, as seen button-holes of the body-strip, the edges of in the detail sectional view of Fig. 3, and are which openings are turned over or doubled secured thereto by stitching the edges of the 80 back from each other. These covering-strips holes J upon the folded flaps C C, as seen at are laid upon the body-strip, on one or both K. The outer lengthwise edges L of these sides thereof. The edges of the strips are superposed stripsare now doubled upon the turned over in any suitable way to form a outer covering-pieces and over the ends of binder running across the ends of the buttonthe button-holes, and are then stitched down, 8 5 3 5 holes, and the strips are sewed together lengthas seen at M. These edges thus form binders wise along the edges of the binders and latfor the completed strip, and, as their stitcherally along the edges of the button-hole ings M cross the ends of the button-holes, openings of the outer coverings. they also serve to bind or stay the ends of In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective the button-holes. In forming these binders o view of a portion of one of the covering-strips. the edges of each covering-piece will usually Fig. 2 is asimilar View of a portion of the be turned upon itself, so that both sides of body-strip, and a projected detail sectional the finished strip will be alike;but other ways View through the double flaps C C. Fig. 3 is of turning down the edges to form a binder a plain face viewof the button-hole strip comfor the strip and to close the ends of the but- 5 5 pleted and a projected detail sectional view ton-holes will suffice, and I do not, therefore, across one of the button-holes. limit myself to any particular form of such Referring to the views in detail, A repre- .binder. sents the body-strip, which may be of any This button-hole strip may be attached to suitable material out to the desired width the corset or other garment upon which it is mo and length. In this strip and at'proper indesired to use it in any suitable way, and in tervals are cut the button-h0le slits B, and some cases the binding parts of one edge of the strip may be the edges of the garment to which it is attached, or the edge of the garment may be inserted between the binders of opposite sides of one edge of the strip and secured thereto.

The body-strip may be divided into pieces, if desiredthat is, into pieces each having a re-enforced button-hole. This would be desirable in cases where the required length of flaps C would be longer than could be cut from the material between two adj aeent button-holes; but ordinarily I prefer that the body parts be in one strip, as shown.

This button-hole strip has various desirable advantages. The button-holes are very strong and durable without being stilt and clumsy, and they are easily manipulated in the act of buttoning. In this connection it is to be particularly noted that the button-holeis mainly stayed or re-enforced on a line back from its edges by the edges of the openings in the covering-strips-that is, the material of the parallel edges of the button-hole is made sufficiently flexible to be easily slipped over the button and to hold strongly thereto but at a short distance from such edges the material is re-enforced and made as strong as may be desired.

What I claim as new is- 1. The herein-described button-hole strip,

edges of said openings being stitched to the flaps C, and the edges L of the covering-piece being formed into edge-binders which cover and close the ends of the button-holes, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with the body-piece A, having the button-hole slits B, re-enforced by the flaps C, the covering-pieces ll, arranged on opposite sides of the body-piece and having the openings J, the three pieces being stitched together and having the binding L formed from their edges and closing the ends of the button-holes, substantially as set forth.

ABRAHAM L. NEVMAN.

Witnesses:

SAML. M. HITCHCOCK, FRANK B. MURPHY. 

